Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-08-03

| On Monday afternoon attached to
one of the through freIghts bound
for the east we're six stock cars
packed with bleached bones OF AMI
mails gathered on the western plains
Thev appeared to be principally, the
heads Of buffalos, elks, antelOpes, etc,
land in some cases were entire skele-
tons of the animals specified The
material was consigned to one OF the
eastern cities where it Will be con
verted into buttons, combs, and other
uses. The bones were gathered on
the plains of the far west, along the
line of the Union Pacific railroad,
and it is stated, Will pay the parties
who gathered them a handsome
profit for their trouble in gathering
them
4 lady entered an Indiana avenue
car, and after taking a seat, began
the task of getting out her nickel and
! placing it in her mouth, or at least
between her lips, thereupon she re
placed the pocket book and other ar
ticles 1t is strange, remarkeda ply
sician who witnessed the incident,
how ladies' will take such risks, as
there Is no telling who has handled
that piece of money. One would think
that ladies would be the last to put
filthy coins in their mouths, but nine
out of ten of them viii do 1t Just as
that lady across the car has done
under similar circumstances OF
course there is greatdanger of con.
! tracing some cutaneOus disease a
| danger that ia intensified when there
/ is the least abrasion of the skin in the
vicinity of the lips. 1t is certainly a very
. questionable act on the score ofclean-
iness as we'll as that .. u .,ec,it1. HHaith."
Chicago Mail
Old fashions, il is said, are sure
some day to ''come around again, and
it is n pity that some Of them are so
slow about it. The by-gone charm Of
shvness in children - how sweet a
thing = was 1t did not necessarily
imply awkwardness-a shy child is
less likely 10 be clumsy and coarse
than a bold one-and IT had the at
traction of all half mysterious things,
partly hidden and partly revealed,
and more suggestive than assertIve-
The small boy who used to receive
light. verbally expressed by only a
low, long drawn OH. and who found
II so much easier 10 thank the giver
with his eyes rather than with his
lips, Ia Il person of the past, and with
I 'z ~ i -.
maid. who" hung in the doorway half
ef-aii when asked TO come in and
spek 70 the visitor.-Toronto Globe.
ATLANTA, Ga, July 27.-The Edu-
cational Committee OF the house and
/ Senate in Joint session last evening
reported in favor of the Glenn bill,
which makes it a penalty for any
teacher to teach a white child in a
lcolOred school or a colored child in a
white school. the schools being kept
separate by constitutional law of
the State. The preliminary discussion
of the bill has created considerable
excitement in the north Its passage
Is accepted here rs the fixed policy
of the State. There was little discus
sion in the committee. Every white
man voted for the bill, the two color
ed members of the committee vO
ting adversely.
Licancsur, a volcano on the east
ern boundary line of the Chilial
j Province of Antefogasta, has been as
i cended by Don Jose Sante Tices. Al
{ inner road leads to the summit. an,
I Peruvian ''tambos houses of a singh
room with a low bench, still remain
upon it. The bottom of the crate
j is about quarter of mile acros
, and has pond 400 hundred feet &C
e ross in its center. Around this pom,
70 are the remains of some thirty larg
. = stone houses, and large quantit
i of fuel, which must have been car
G ried there at least 400 years ago, bu
5 whether by Peruvians or by their en-
= imies the Calchagui Indians, cannc
be known.
g GARDEN City, Kan, July ga con
n bination of land spectators recentl
q bought large amounts of very poo
/ land in the vicinity of Dodge Cit
g Kansas, and it transpires that the
Is have presented to President Clev,
" land immense petitions to be signe
IS by settlers asking that the land offic
y of the district be removed to tbs
D. place, expecting thereby to get up
n boom that will help them to unloa
c. at big profit 1t is claimed that
"a personal friend of the President
,e engineering TIE scheme. presumin
In upon his personal acquaintance an
o influence to pull it through
$. A very old colored woman, WI
spent many years of her life on Ion
ID Island, where she worked in the ma
! ket gardens, says that however ba
g the mosquitoes used to be they nev,
4s attacked her when among the cucur
> Der vines. Here is a hint for peac
'd loving men. May not these vines |
b grown to advantage in boxes ar
5h twined over the windows and thu
u the inmates of the house be permit,
Ut to rest and even to sleep unmolest,
q by these pests!
an One of the queerest facts in nat
he raj history has been discovered |
id Rev j. J. Laffo.ty, of Richmon
a who gives t to the world in his I
n hgious journal as follows when
be sparrow hawk pounces upon aguin
as he lets the guinea fly, but the hav
nj sitting on the back of the fowl us
n his own tail to guide the guinea l
ke always steers his victim TO his ne
ns II the forest Atlanta Constitutio
er A petition to Congress is BEN
en- circulated in Brunswick to pass Ia
be to prohibit Sunday mails to be c.
he !ected or distributed on Sundqy:
IN forbid military drilling, masters al
y parsdes by United States cadet
d soldiers and marines on SUNDAY. .
a large number of the citizens ha
d signed the petition.-Lewiston (Me
fe Journal